Artificial Brain Ten Years Away

A top British professor presented in a conference his building of replica human brain. Professor Henry Markham told that this it's not impossible and we can do it in 10 years. He is director of the Blue Brain project, which aims to engineer mammals' brains from laboratory data. He has already had success with creating parts of a rat's brain. Markham said that the human brain was an almost frithtening organ. Professor hoped his research would lead to new treatments for mental illnesses. Markham believes that a technology brain reduce the need of experiments on animals. He provided a simple explanation of his work: "It's a bit like going and cataloguing a bit of the rainforest.. But it is a bit more because you have to describe and discover all the rules of communication and connectivity."

Adidas to make shoes from ocean garbage.

Adidas has made sports shoes from ocean garbage. The trainer is part of a project to raise perception of the big problem of ocean pollution. Adidas collaborates whit an organisation called Parley, which protects and preserves the Earth's oceans.
This is the demonstration that the plastic can be transformate into something cool. Garbage in the ocean is a very big problem and UNESCO says that there are 30.000 pieces of plastic for every km of ocean. Plastic kills many marine animals every year.
Another project to help the enviroment is the elimination of plastic bag in every Adidas shops.

Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel was born in Saumur, city of the Loire, on 19 August 1883 and she was a famous French stylist, capable of revolutionizing the concept of femininty.
She founded her fisrt fashion home and she transformed the color black, used for funerals, into something elegant and beautiful. She liked drawing and always making new clothes: her clothes  became famous in all over the world. Her life was difficult since childhood, she had to over come many obastacles like the life in the orphanage.
A quote very kind is: Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

   

Carnival!

                                  RUGANTINO


Rugantino is a mask of the Roman Theatre, he is an arrogant young but in the end lovely and good. His characteristic appearance is "Ruganza", roman word that means Arrogance.
Ghetenaccio, the most important roman puppeteer, was famous for his representations that had as protagonist Rugantino.
This makes us think that the mask dates back to the end of 1700.
His custom has a red hat, red frac, a waistcoat, a jacket, red trousers and a pair of orange and red socks and to the neck has a handkerchief.

Matt Harding..!

Matt Harding was born on September 27 of 1976 in Connecticut. He is an Amercan traveler, video game designer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of important monuments in various international locations. Matt was known by his friends to have a particular way to dance and during a video in Vietnam, friends advise to add dance. The videos were loaded on his page to have fun family and other people, becoming so popular.

Origins of Candy Cane!

Candy Cane is so popular that is one of decorations for Christmas or not. It has many flavors but the better are peppermint and cinnamon.

Candy Cane became famous thanks a German-Swedish immigrant in 1847. His legend tells about that candy cane first was straight as a stick and then it became a J-Shape thanks to a German choirmaster. It is said that during service one evening, the children were very noisy and they don't give attention at choirmaster. To keep them quiet he gave them a long, white, sugar candy stick. Since giving sweets at church was considered sacrilegious but he bent these sticks to make them look like a Shepherd's cane and attached a religious significance to them. It is a representation of Jesus because the white color is the purity of Christ, the stripes represent his sacrifice and the color red symbolizing his blood. 

   

Samuel Johnson..!!!

Samuel Johnson was born on 18 September in 1709 and he was a British poet, writer, biographer and lyricist. He was classified like the most important literate of the English history because he invented the first English Dictionary. In 1746 an publishers group proposed to him the creation of the dictionary in three years old. Johnson not finished it in the established time but in nine years old. Despite his difficult study for the lack of  money and his strong the Dictionary was pubblicaded in 1755 on April and the page was hight 46cm and it had a width of 56cm, another the book gathering 42.773 words.